After seeing LordAlex and Jesse Warden post about being in the credits, I thought, what the heck… let’s just see…

That’s very very exciting to be in the credits under special thanks. The thanks definitely goes to Macromedia on this though. You guys took quite a bit of ranting from the Flash community after MX 2004, and instead of getting defensive about feature decisions, you took lots of notes, had numerous focus groups, and were so much more open about the beta process with sneak peeks at conferences and putting out a tremendous amount of material on the site a month before the ship date.

The result is a version of Flash that is a more significant feature leap from 3-4, and amazingly enough, even surpassed the 4-5 change. I’ve heard so many people say things like “this gives me so many new ideas” and “It is like the Flash 4 days where I can’t sleep, doing so many things in Flash at once.” Whoever was the mastermind behind the Studio 8 development/PR/Marketing process, you are worth your weight in gold.

BTW, the “woot” graphic above was completely made in Flash THEN brought into PhotoShop much like I found myself doing all of my vector stuff in Flash rather than illustrator or Freehand, I find myself actually using Flash as a way to produce some raster images. I like Flash’s controls, and I like the way it just works.